Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1919 — INCREASED ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT PER CENT. [ARTICLE]

INCREASED ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT PER CENT.

The assessed valuation of the real estate and improvements of Indiana for the year 1919 is 138 per cent •higher than in 1918. The total assessed valuation of the land and improvements in 1918 was $1,390,165,973. That of 1919 is $3,217,074,645. In Jiasper county the 1918 land and improvements valuation was $11,276,340 and in 1919 it is $29,631,580 or $69.45 per acre for 1919. For Newton county the -land and improvements valuation for 1918 was $9,812,510 and in 1919 is $27,155,720, or $91.49 per acre for 1919, The 1919 assessed valuation of White county was $11,342,060, and for 1919 $37,970,110, or an average per acre for 1919 of $101.48. The average valuation of real esj taite and improvements of Benton leounty per acre for 1919 is $164.62. , The valuation for 1918 was $15,(295,013 and 1919 $47,385,745. The 1919 average valuation of real estate and improvements in Pulaski county is $59.82. The 1918 valuation is $5,953,770 and 1919 $20,129,750. In Porter county the average valuation of real estate and improvements f«r 1919 per acre is $53.19 and our northern neighbor, Lake county, has an average valuation for 1919 of $91.49 per acre. | Marion county has the highest 11919 valuation per acre of real estate and improvements, that assessment for that county being $186.30. Tipton county is second with an average valuation ' per acre of $168.40. Beaton county is third with an assessment as given above. Brown county has the lowest valuation of real estate and improvements for 1919. The 1919 average per acre is $8.13.